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WENT AFTER - This expression is common in the Pentateuch, and always
signifies actual idolatry (see Deuteronomy 11:28; Deuteronomy 13:2;
Deuteronomy 28:14, etc.)....
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7. SOLOMON'S FAILURE: JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AND THE BEGINNING OF
DISRUPTION
CHAPTER 11
_ 1. Solomon's polygamy and departure from God (1 Kings 11:1)_
2. Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11:14)
3. Rezon the...
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SIN OF SOLOMON, AND THE ADVERSARIES RAISED UP IN CONSEQUENCE. From
various differences in the arrangement of the earlier verses in the
LXX and Heb., it has been supposed that in its original form the...
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ASHTORETH. Compare Judges 2:13. 1Sa 7:3. 1 Samuel 12:10; 1 Samuel
31:10.
MILCOM. Same as _Malcham,_ the Aramaic pronunciation of Molech ...
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_Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians_ Ashtoreth was the chief
female divinity of the Phœnicians, as Baal was their chief male
deity. As Baal has been identified with the sun, so Ashtoreth has by
so...
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I. SOLOMON'S TRANSGRESSIONS 11:1-13
TRANSLATION
(1) And King Solomon loved many strange women, even Pharaoh's
daughter, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian and Hittite women (2)
from the nations of...
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_FOR SOLOMON WENT AFTER ASHTORETH THE GODDESS OF THE ZIDONIANS, AND
AFTER MILCOM THE ABOMINATION OF THE AMMONITES._
Ashtoreth - plural, Ashtaroth (Astarte), a female divinity worshipped
by the Sidoni...
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SOLOMON'S ERRORS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. HIS DEATH
This chapter furnishes an account of Solomon's marriages with numerous
foreign princesses, and traces the evil effect of such in the
toleration of i...
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ASHTORETH] the Phœnician name of the goddess worshipped by the
Babylonians under the title of Ishtar, the goddess of love. MILCOM]
identical with the Molech of 1 Kings 11:7....
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 11
SOLOMON *WORSHIPS FALSE GODS
V1 Solomon, however, loved many foreign women. He married the
daughter of the king of Egypt. He also mar...
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(1-8) The defection of Solomon is distinctly traced to his polygamy,
contracting numerous marriages with “strange women.” Polygamy is
also attributed to David (see 2 Samuel 3:2; 2 Samuel 15:16), marki...
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ASHTORETH (or, _Astarte_). — The goddess of the Zidonians, and
possibly the Hittites, corresponding to Baal, the great Tyrian god,
and representing the receptive and productive, as Baal the active and...
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וַ יֵּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה אַחֲרֵ֣י
עַשְׁתֹּ֔רֶת אֱלֹהֵ֖י...
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THE OLD AGE OF SOLOMON
1 Kings 11:1
"That uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair
idolatresses, fell To idols foul."
- MILTON, Paradise Lost.
"Did not Solomon, king of Israel, s...
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HOLLOW PROSPERITY
1 Kings 11:1
"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is
vanity."
- Ecclesiastes 1:2
"At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of
ra...
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A HEART TURNED AWAY FROM GOD
1 Kings 11:1
The practice of mixed marriages was in direct violation of the divine
Law, Deuteronomy 7:3, and it led to idolatry. All around the Holy City
arose heathen te...
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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At this point the story of Solomon suddenly changes. The glory passes
away, and we observe his rapid degeneracy and doom. The nature of the
man had ever a strong animal side. His commercial enterprise...
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_Astarthe. Hebrew Hashtoreth, "ewes," is in the plural form, as if to
denote many idols. But the moon, or the queen of heaven, (Jeremias
vii. 18.) is particularly designated, Judges ii. 12. (Haydock)...
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(2) Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of
Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto
you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their go...
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Solomon was now at the height of his glory, a vivid type of a greater
than Solomon. And it is only when we see that he really does thus
prefigure the Lord Jesus as King that we can understand the impo...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12.
Till now we have had the beautiful picture of God's blessing resting
upon the son of David, whose only desire it had been to possess wisdom
from Go...
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AND SOLOMON WENT AFTER ASHTORETH THE GODDESS OF THE ZIDONIANS,....
Enticed by the Zidonian women, or woman, he had, 1 Kings 11:1.
According to the Phoenician histories i, Solomon married a daughter of...
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For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and
after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Ver. 5. _For Solomon went after Ashtoreth,_] _i.e., _ Venus, as some
will have it, or...
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1 Kin. 11:5-7. It does not appear that Solomon did himself worship
these strange gods. But what his wives persuaded him to, was to build
high places for them to worship their gods in: he probably went...
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_Solomon went after Ashtoreth_ Called also Astarte. See on Judges
2:13. _And after Milcom_ The same, it is thought, with Molech, who is
here called an abomination, because highly detested by God. _Sol...
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1 Solomons wiues and concubines.
4 In his old age they draw him to idolatry.
9 God threatneth him.
14 Solomons aduersaries were Hadad, who was intertained in Egypt,
23 Rezon who reigned in Damascu...
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Solomon's Love of Women and Idolatry...
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for Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, he did
not hinder the cult of this idol, AND AFTER MILCOM, THE ABOMINATION OF
THE AMMONITES, an idol whose worship was connected with re...
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MANY MARRIAGES LEADING TO IDOLATRY
(vs.1-13)
Solomon also disobeyedDeuteronomy 17:17 in making many marriages with
foreign women, from the Moabites, Alnmonites, Edomites, Sidonians and
Hittites (v.1)...
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1-8 There is not a more melancholy and astonishing instance of human
depravity in the sacred Scriptures, than that here recorded. Solomon
became a public worshipper of abominable idols! Probably he b...
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SOLOMON WENT AFTER ASHTORETH, in manner explained in the former verse.
_Milcom_, called also _Molech_; of which see LEVITICUS 18:21 2 KINGS
23:10....
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1 Kings 11:5 Solomon H8010 went H3212 (H8799) after H310 Ashtoreth
H6253 goddess H430 Sidonians H6722 after H310 Milcom
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SOLOMON THROWS HIMSELF WHOLEHEARTEDLY INTO IDOLATRY BECAUSE OF HIS
WIVES (1 KINGS 11:1).
Solomon's obsession with his own glory inevitably resulted in his
beginning to feel that he was so great that h...
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ASHTORETH
(1 Kings 11:33).
(_ See Scofield) - (Judges 2:13). _...
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CONTENTS: Solomon's heart turned. Chastened of God. Rise of Jeroboam.
Death of Solomon.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hadad, Pharaoh, Rezon, Jeroboam, Adoram,
Ahijah.
CONCLUSION: The way of sin is down h...
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1 Kings 11:1. _Solomon loved many strange women,_ of gentile nations,
and was connected with them. To this day thousands of women in India
are married to great men merely as a mark of honour, and they...
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_But King Solomon loved many strange women._
SOLOMON’S SIN
A few years ago two paintings were exhibited in this country, which
attracted wide attention. One of them represented Rome in the height
of...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 11:1 Throughout chs. 1 Kings 1:1 there have
been hints that all is not well with Solomon’s heart. Now comes the
inevitable conclusion: Solomon’s sins have led him to apostasy.
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 11:5 ASHTORETH is the biblical name for
Astarte. At ancient Ugarit in Syria, the planet Venus was worshiped as
Astarte. MILCOM was a god of the underworld....
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THE DECLINE OF THE HEBREW EMPIRE
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 11:1. BUT KING SOLOMON LOVED MANY STRANGE WOMEN—If
importations of foreign luxuries and indulgences into his court (see
previ...
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EXPOSITION
SOLOMON'S DEFECTION.—The observant reader will have already remarked
in this history some intimations of Solomon's approaching fall. Among
these are, first, the repeated warnings which are...
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Chapter eleven.
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughters
of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and
Hittites (1 Kings 11:1);
Now turn back fo...
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1 Kings 11:33; 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Samuel 12:10; 1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Samuel
7:4
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Milcom — Called also Moloch....